Mostly entertaining film about tech crime, made all that more convincing by Tim Robbin's talent to quietly but in sinister fashion convince us that he was the filmmaker's incarnation of the "evil doer of the tech empire" that we all know and love to hate. It was not cloaked much, like, Portland was used as the NW silicon valley not Se$$le, and you knew right away exactly who they wanted you to reference as the Big Bad Guy. Here are some clues for the slow....first name....ducks have them; second name....in your yard you open them and walk through. No, not web-foot doors. Think! Be creative!
I liked this film for its entertainment value, but I could easily see its errors and giant departures from the truth even as I appreciated the ideas and possibilities shown(the best part of it all). That said, it performed the broad(no pun)strokes well of a story of a garage start-up tech company and the very organized and dedicated attempt to steal precious and valuable tech from the Very Little Guys by The Very Big Guy Who Must Rule All, No Matter How Small. It also showed us the very obvious reality that theft and violent crime can and does enter any work place where there is a chance for someone to be globally powerful and, oh yes, lest I forget, make obscene money, not to mention squash the competition into molecular bits smaller than the talcum powder in latex gloves.
It went like this: Never trust anyone...done. Only the bigs are bad....done. Only the little guys are good....done. Crime does not pay(in the end)....done. Tech is a wildly exciting field....done. Everything great in tech happens right now, no waiting.....done. All the neatest equipment to be able to do anything is at your fingertips....done. Have all the clichés been covered yet? "Show me some creativity" and come up with some more of your own. They were endless. And, it ended exactly the way you knew it would.
I liked this film for its entertainment value, but I could easily see its errors and giant departures from the truth even as I appreciated the ideas and possibilities shown(the best part of it all). That said, it performed the broad(no pun)strokes well of a story of a garage start-up tech company and the very organized and dedicated attempt to steal precious and valuable tech from the Very Little Guys by The Very Big Guy Who Must Rule All, No Matter How Small. It also showed us the very obvious reality that theft and violent crime can and does enter any work place where there is a chance for someone to be globally powerful and, oh yes, lest I forget, make obscene money, not to mention squash the competition into molecular bits smaller than the talcum powder in latex gloves.
It went like this: Never trust anyone...done. Only the bigs are bad....done. Only the little guys are good....done. Crime does not pay(in the end)....done. Tech is a wildly exciting field....done. Everything great in tech happens right now, no waiting.....done. All the neatest equipment to be able to do anything is at your fingertips....done. Have all the clichés been covered yet? "Show me some creativity" and come up with some more of your own. They were endless. And, it ended exactly the way you knew it would.